how to get rid of classic theme in portal with allow creation of related records

I am trying to apply a theme with styles that mimic the classic theme in regards to the new empty bottom row appearing of a portal based on a relationship where a new record can be created through.

So using the classic theme of this FileMaker layout (inherited from FMP11) field frames of the bottom empty row are displayed and the user knows

where to enter a new line item.

The Minimalist theme currently in exchange for classic won't display anything there. I don't want to apply conditional formatting as a work around because I like the idea of applying a portal style to all portals in the solution where the portal is based on a relationship allowing the creation of related records.

How can I change the behavior back or alter the style or choose another theme to get the desired classic behavior (effect) on the last line of the portal?

thank you for your reply - I actually have the relationships all set as before. All behaves as expected but it won't show the last line - if i click on the last line i can type into white space and it creates the record as intended.

The challenge I am facing is that I cannot get the field frames back to show there is an empty line ready to enter data.

From what I know there is no Theme that works different in the area that you are asking for. Easy to check that is to use the DesignPalette from Chiyoko to set up a layout with each theme to check for differences

(if i could get just any lean theme to behave like classic on the last related record creating portal row as well as on all other rows of the portal to indicate there is an empty line ready for data entry classic could go|

[begin excerpt]When you have a portal that allows the creation of related records, placeholder text can improve the user experience by showing that the last row of the portal is available for data entry.[end excerpt]

I am trying actually to be cheap here and not utilize any additional object to the portal - i hoped there would be somehow anything I overlooked within the theme to tinker that the new empty line would be visible.

i also try to avoid conditional formatting because everything added slows things down.

(That is, I think that FM always runs through some logic for each field displayed, and you can utilize it or not, depending on your needs. I'm wondering if evaluating text=null, and displaying nothing, is much faster than evaluating/displaying text="new row").